Confusing departure board at Crewe

[The Mercian]

Was it? I've a feeling that remodelling Crewe wasn't going to come about until 2B

If that’s the case that seems….incredibly short sighted.

 

[The Planner]

Was it? I've a feeling that remodelling Crewe wasn't going to come about until 2B

The tunnel was 2B.The rest was 2A.

 

[Horizon22]

The lack of "via Chester" on the screens has nothing to do with the management of the station. It's up to TfW's short-term planners or (failing that) their CIS Controller.


Assuming that you arrived on platform 9 or 10, there would have been one attached to the wall beyond the buffer stops.

I was going to say it was probably just overlooked. If you amend a service to a new destination - by enacting a diversion - you would manually need to put in a “via” (at for example, the original destination) into that particular train to reflect on the CIS. If there’s significant disruption, that may not be a priority. There may also be a station controller / announcer who also has some limited CIS control.

 

[trainophile]

I was stuck at Crewe for an hour on Friday due to hot weather train complications, and all I would say is they could do more with the platform 6/11 waiting room. Higgledy piggledy not very comfortable chairs and tables, not enough of them, and some air conditioning would have made it less unbearable.

 

[Krokodil]

There may also be a station controller / announcer who also has some limited CIS control.

In Crewe the Avanti staff can obviously swap TfW trains between platforms, but that's about all they can do without phoning Cardiff.

 

[Trainman40083]

In Crewe the Avanti staff can obviously swap TfW trains between platforms, but that's about all they can do without phoning Cardiff.

I'd suggest the Avanti staff can't swap TfW trains between platforms. Only Network Rail in the control room can.

 

[Krokodil]

I'd suggest the Avanti staff can't swap TfW trains between platforms. Only Network Rail in the control room can.

The pedantry in this place reaches new levels.

When I am referring to "swapping platforms", I am referring to changing the CIS screen so that the 08:52 to Middle Wallop is now advertised to depart from platform 3 instead of platform 13.

 

[Andy Pacer]

The pedantry in this place reaches new levels.

When I am referring to "swapping platforms", I am referring to changing the CIS screen so that the 08:52 to Middle Wallop is now advertised to depart from platform 3 instead of platform 13.

To be fair, that isn't how your previous posting read.

Things do seem to have become trickier since the hourly LNWR Euston service now takes its layover on platform 11 rather than in the bay at platform 7 now it's a 10 car 730. This has definitely seen platform 12 used more.

 

[Trainman40083]

To be fair, that isn't how your previous posting read.

Things do seem to have become trickier since the hourly LNWR Euston service now takes its layover on platform 11 rather than in the bay at platform 7 now it's a 10 car 730. This has definitely seen platform 12 used more.

To be fair too, I spent 21 years of my working life commuting in and out of Crewe station. Many a day, a passenger would ask me, rather than staff. My train for Derby (nearly always) departed from platform 4. But it also left from every platform other than 9 and 10. On one occasion it went north to come back due to a points failure. From the bottom end of 12, was the day I nearly missed it.

 

[GordonT]

I wonder how Crewe's staff and information sources are coping this morning with substantial dislocation of services due to animals on the line near Rugeley.